wasn t sure of legal status name Diaspora image Image Diaspora GollanczPB .jpg 200px image caption ... English genre Hard science fiction novel publisher Gollancz release date September 1997 media type Print paperback pages 376 pp PB edition isbn 0 75280 925 3 oclc 39837889 Diaspora , a hard science fiction novel by the Australia n writer Greg Egan , first appeared in print in 1997. Plot introduction This novel s setting is a Posthuman Human evolution posthuman future, in which transhumanism long ... cultures. The novel began as a short story entitled Wang s Carpets which originally appeared in New ... and included Wang s Carpets as a chapter in the novel. An appended glossary explains many of the specialist terms in the novel. Egan invents several new theories of physics , beginning with Kozuch Theory, the dominant physics paradigm for nearly nine hundred years before the beginning of the novel ... pronoun s ve , vis , and ver are used for them. The world of the novel By 2975 Christian era CE Universal Time , the year in which the novel begins, humanity has speciation speciated into three distinct ... prior to the novel s Introdus event, the vast profusion of qualitatively different types of fleshers ... Greek means city Sovereign state state . ref These represent the majority by far of humanity in the novel ... afford limitless possibilities at a small fraction of the total resource consumption. Diaspora ...? Plot summary Diaspora begins with a description of orphanogenesis , the birthing of a citizen ... them into the polises. The novel s title itself refers to a quest undertaken by most of the inhabitants ... from throughout the Coalition of Polises. The Diaspora consists of a collection of one thousand ... Theory, which had failed to predict the Lacerta event. The bulk of the novel follows this expedition ... polis conceptory rather than by a parent or parents. A central character in the novel, ve usually takes ... from Konishi rescue Orlando and bring him into the polis he joins the Diaspora, and thanks ... more details
Other uses A diaspora from Greek language Greek , scattering, dispersion ref name liddell cite ... webster.com dictionary diaspora title Diaspora accessdate 2011 02 22 quote publisher Merriam Webster ... to the Jewish diaspora after the Babylonian exile , but recently the word has also come to refer to other ... n rule. ref name ember Recently scholarship has distinguished between different kinds of diaspora, based ... within the diaspora community and its ties to the ancestral lands. Some diaspora communities maintain ... are thoughts of return, relationships with other communities in the diaspora, and lack of full assimilation .... Volume I Overviews and Topics Volume II Diaspora Communities year 2004 publisher page quote url http ... of the term The first mention of a diaspora created as a result of exile is found in the Septuagint in the phrase es diaspora en pasais basileias t s g s translated to mean thou shalt be a dispersion ... Bible was translated into Greek ref p.81, Kantor ref in Ancient Greece the term diaspora ..., the word Diaspora then was used to refer to the population of Jew s exiled from Israel in 607 BCE ... ref When capitalized and without modifiers that is, simply the Diaspora , the term refers specifically to the Jewish diaspora ref name webster when uncapitalized the word diaspora may be used ... The wider application of diaspora evolved from the Assyrian two way mass deportation policy of conquered ... According to the Oxford English Dictionary Online , the first known recorded usage of the word diaspora in the English language was in 1876 referring extensive diaspora work as it is termed of evangelizing ... Entry 52085 title diaspora, n. work Oxford English Dictionary Online date November ... or regions also being referred to as a diaspora. citation needed date February 2011 An academic field, diaspora studies , has become established relating to this sense of the word. In all cases, the term diaspora carries a sense of displacement that is, the population so described finds itself ... more details
Wiktionarypar diasporaDiaspora is the dispersion of a population from their native land. Diaspora may also refer to A particular diaspora of note main List of diasporas Diaspora politics Diaspora politics in the United States Diaspora studies DiasporanovelDiasporanovel , a science fiction book by Greg Egan Diaspora role playing game , hard science fiction role playing game. Based on FATE role playing game system Fate . Winner of the 2010 ENnies award for best rules. Diaspora computer game Diaspora computer game , a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game MMORPG by Altitude Productions Diaspora software , an open source program designed to create social networks Diaspora album Diaspora album , an album by Natacha Atlas Prayer of the Refugee , a single from the album The Sufferer & The Witness by the punk band Rise Against the song was originally called Diaspora , with that title being used on early copies of the album See also Diaspore botany Diaspore mineral Exodus disambiguation disambig el ru sk Diasp ra idia fi Diaspora t smennyssivu tr Diaspora anlam ayr m uk ... more details
Gaelic diaspora would be understood as referring to the Gaels Gaelic speakering parts of either the Irish diaspora or Scottish diaspora DAB ... more details
Celtic diaspora may refer to any of the following diaspora s of Celts Celtic people Cornish diaspora Irish diaspora Scottish people Scottish people abroad Welsh diaspora Welsh emigration disambig ... more details
other uses Diaspora disambiguation Diaspora studies is an academic field established in the late twentieth century to study dispersed ethnicity ethnic populations, which are often termed diaspora peoples . The usage of the term diaspora carries the connotation of forced resettlement, due to expulsion, slavery, racism , or war, especially nationalism nationalist conflict. Academic institutes The International Institute for Diasporic and Transcultural Studies IIDTS a transnational institute incorporating Jean Moulin University Lyon s, France , the University of Cyprus , Sun Yat sen University Guangzhou , China and Liverpool Hope University UK is a dedicated research network operating in a transdisciplinary logic and focussed on cultural representation and auto representation of diasporic communities throughout the world. The institute sponsors the trilingual Transtext e s Transcultures A Journal of Global Cultural Studies http www.transtexts.net See also Diaspora politics DEFAULTSORT Diaspora Studies Category Diaspora studies Category Ethnology Category Anthropology ethno stub ta ... more details
Infobox software name Diaspora title logo File Diaspora logotype.svg 200px screenshot File Diaspora latest.png ... release date Start date and age YYYY MM DD latest preview version http github.com diasporadiaspora ... , September 15, 2010, Blog Diaspora ref latest preview date Start date and age 2010 09 15 frequently ... AGPL ref name kickstarter pitch website http joindiaspora.com joindiaspora.com Diaspora stylized DIASPORA is a free personal web server ref name kickstarter pitch cite web url http www.kickstarter.com projects 196017994 diaspora the personally controlled do it all distr title Decentralize the web ... of project The group was inspired to create Diaspora by a February 5, 2010 speech from Columbia ... dot.Maggie publisher BBC News date May 12, 2010 accessdate October 28, 2010 ref Diaspora works by letting ... updates, photographs and other social data. ref name cw cite web title Diaspora A first peek at Facebook s challenger url http www.computerworld.com s article 9186498 Diaspora A first peek at Facebook ... also says he sees a little of myself in them. ref http mashable.com 2010 05 28 zuckerberg diaspora ... www.theregister.co.uk 2010 09 16 diaspora pre alpha landmines publisher The Register accessdate September ... 10, 2010 ref After its foundation is completed, Diaspora s developers intend to concentrate on creating ... a paid hosting service for Diaspora seeds. ref name kickstarter pitch ref name diaspora project ... References Reflist 2 External links Official http www.joindiaspora.com http github.com diasporadiasporaDiaspora GitHub repository http www.diasporaforum.org Diaspora Forum http www.kickstarter.com projects 196017994 diaspora the personally controlled do it all distr Kickstarter pitch http www.youtube.com watch?v oqxQgfQD24M video http diasporatest.com A Diaspora Wiki http podup.sargodarya.de List of available Diaspora pods http pods.diasp.org Live Status of Public Diaspora Pods http diasporatest.com index.php Diaspora on Ubuntu How To Step By Step Install Diaspora on Ubuntu https github.com ... more details
citations missing date January 2010 Diaspora politics is the Theories of political behavior political behavior of transnational ethnic groups ethnic diaspora s, their relationship with their ethnic homeland s and their host states, as well as their prominent role in ethnic conflict s. ref name ShainWittes2002 Yossi Shain Shain, Yossi & Tamara Cofman Wittes. u Peace as a Three Level Game The Role of Diasporas in Conflict Resolution u in Thomas Ambrosio Ambrosio, Thomas . 2002. Ethnic identity groups and U.S. foreign policy. Praeger Publishers. ISBN 0275975339 ref The study of diaspora politics is part of the broader field of diaspora studies . To understand a diaspora s politics, one must first understand its historical context and attachments ref name Ambrosio2002 Thomas Ambrosio Ambrosio, Thomas . 2002. Ethnic identity groups and U.S. foreign policy. Praeger Publishers. ISBN 0275975339 ref A diaspora is a transnational community that defined itself as a singular ethnic group based upon its shared cultural identity identity . Diasporas result from historical emigration from an original homeland . In modern cases, this migration can be historically documented, and the diaspora associated with a certain territory. Whether this territory is in fact the homeland of a specific ethnic group ... for the complete diaspora population to return to the homeland, and the remaining diaspora community ... diaspora communities are now recognized by scholars as inevitable and endemic features ... reasons First, within each of a diaspora s host states, resident members can organize domestically to maximize their political clout. Second, a diaspora can exert significant pressure in its homeland s domestic political arena regarding issues of diaspora concern. Lately, a diaspora ... Transnationalism Diaspora politics in the United States References reflist Nationalism Ethnicity Category Diaspora studies Politics, diaspora Category Ethnicity in politics Category Transnationalism ... more details
distinguish Pashtun diaspora Infobox Ethnic group group Afghan Diaspora image Image Flag of Afghanistan.svg 180px border region1 span style font size 105 span region2 flagcountry Pakistan pop2 1,780,000 region3 flagcountry Iran pop3 935,600 region4 flagcountry Germany pop4 100,000 region5 flagcountry United Arab Emirates pop5 70,000 region6 flagcountry United Kingdom pop6 70,000 region15 flagcountry United States pop15 65,972 region20 flagcountry Canada pop20 48,090 region16 flagcountry Netherlands pop16 38,653 region24 flagcountry Australia pop24 19,416 languages Dari Persian Dari , Pashto language Pashto , other Languages of Afghanistan and the languages spoken in the respective country of residence. religions Predominantly Sunni Islam with Shia Islam Shia Afghan diaspora or Afghan immigrants are citizen s of Afghanistan who have emigration migrated to another country, or people of Afghan origin who are born outside Afghanistan. See also Afghan refugees Afghans in Pakistan Afghans in Iran Afghan American Afghan Canadian Afghans in the United Kingdom Afghans in Germany Afghans in the Netherlands Afghan Australian Afghan Australia Afghans in Tajikistan References Reflist Afghan diaspora DEFAULTSORT Afghan Diaspora Category Afghan diaspora afghanistan stub ... more details
first Faye title Martha Ostenso, Literary History, and the Scandinavian Diaspora url http www.canlit.ca archives.php?issuenumber 192 quote ...the Scandinavian diaspora disrupts nationalist literary ... quote My story begins with a fragment in the history of the Scandinavian diaspora. About 1886, a young ... s Scandinavian diaspora informants from the USA Chapter 4 re embed themselves through recounting ... diaspora 22&hl en&ei P1uTTZPVD6230QGavuXMBw&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum 1&ved 0CCgQ6AEwADgK v snippet&q scandinavian 20diaspora&f false ref Swedish diaspora Main Swedish diaspora It includes ... Swedish Britons as well as others. Finnish diaspora Main Finnish diaspora People emigrated to the United ... Finnish Diaspora United States year 1981 publisher Multicultural History Society of Ontario page quote url isbn ref ref cite book author Michael G. Karni coauthors title Finnish Diaspora Canada, South ... page quote url isbn ref Danish diaspora Main Danish diaspora They include Danish Americans , Danish Australian s and Danish Canadians . Norwegian diaspora Main Norwegian diaspora Emigrants became Kola ... more details
Image anasofia.jpg right thumb 145px Miss Diaspora 2007. Miss Diaspora , themed night at the Callatis Festival in Romania , where young Romanian women from all over the world compete to take the title of Miss Diaspora . The reigning Miss Diaspora 2007 is Ana Sofia Marcu, a resident of Chicago, USA. External links http www.missdiaspora.ro main.htm Miss Diaspora romanian festival stub culture stub romania stub Category Beauty pageants Past Winners 2005 Winners 1st place Ana Spatari 2nd place Nadia Salameh 3rd place Paula Marina 2006 Winners 1st place Andreea Ambrosa 2nd place Diana Man 3rd place Mihaela Coman 2007 Winners 1st place Marcu Ana 2nd place Marina Cabici 3rd place Andreea Filipoi 2008 Winners 1st place Alexandra Tanase 2nd place Denisa Melinte 3rd place Maria Van Haaren 2010 Winners 1st place Tatiana Raducanu 2nd place Diana Botnaru 3rd place Oana Borcoman ... more details
The term Syrian diaspora refers to the native Syrian people living outside of Syria as either immigrants or refugees. Note that this differs from the other Syrian people living in other areas of Greater Syria , who are of related ethnolinguistics ethnolinguistical family, speaking Eastern Arabic languages, which belong to a group of language s and dialect s known as Levantine Arabic . According to the Syrian Ministry of Expatriates, the Syrian diaspora is estimated at over 18 million people who emigrated to North America , Europe , including Sweden and France South America Mainly Syrian Brazilian Brazil , Syrian Chilean Chile , Syrian Venezuelan Venezuela and Colombia , Australia and Africa . An estimated one million Syrians live in the United States of America USA , including those who are third or fourth generation Arab American s of Syrian descent. The majority of the Syrian diaspora happen to be Christians of the Eastern Orthodox Churches and Eastern Rite Churches which is a local form of Roman Catholicism goes back hundreds of years before the Islam ic Arab conquest of Syria in the 8th century AD. Syrian diaspora Syria stub Category People of Syrian descent Category Syrian emigrants fr Diaspora syrienne ... more details
Infobox Album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name Diaspora Type Album Artist Natacha Atlas Cover Diaspora atlas.jpg Released March 1995 Recorded Genre Electronica , World music Length Label Nation Records , Music Corporation of America MCA Producer Transglobal Underground Reviews Allmusic Rating 3 5 Allmusic class album id r220157 pure url yes link Last album This album Diaspora br 1995 Next album Halim album Halim br 1997 Misc Singles Name Diaspora Type album single 1 Dub Yalil single 1 date 1994 single 2 Leysh Nat Arak single 2 date 1995 single 3 Duden song Duden single 3 date 1995 small promotional small single 4 Yalla Chant single 4 date 1995 Diaspora is the debut album by Belgium Belgian singer Natacha Atlas . It was released by Nation Records in March 1995. Track listing All tracks written and composed by Natacha Atlas, Count Dubulah, Hamid ManTu and Attiah Ahlan, except where stated. Iskanderia 5 15 Leysh Nat Arak 6 07 Diaspora small Atlas Count Dubulah Hamid ManTu Attiah Ahlan Neil Sparkes small 6 47 Yalla Chant 5 53 Alhambra Part 1 small Atlas Count Dubulah Hamid ManTu Attiah Ahlan Larry Whelan small 1 20 Duden song Duden 6 41 Feres small Atlas Essam Rashad small 7 38 Fun Does Not Exist 5 56 Dub Yalil small Atlas small 5 56 Iskanderia Atlas Zamalek 5 15 Diaspora Ballon Theatre mix 7 02 Fun Does Not Exist Dolmus mix 6 21 Bonus tracks All bonus tracks appear on the Japan ese edition of Diaspora . li value 13 Coulishi 5 08 Duden Day Trip to Sousse mix 7 00 Duden Indian Jungle Book mix 6 11 Personnel The following people contributed to Diaspora ref Diaspora CD liner notes . Nation Records. March 1995. ref col begin col 2 Natacha Atlas singer lead vocals , dharabuka Larry Whelan saxophone , clarinet Essam Rashad oud , violin Rafiq Rouissi dharabuka, riq , percussion ... Category 1995 albums Category Electronic albums Category Natacha Atlas albums lt Diaspora albumas ru Diaspora ... more details
Refimprove date October 2010 The Bosnian diaspora consists of Bosnian emigrants and their descendants in countries such as the United States, Canada, Germany, Austria, Australia and elsewhere. There are an estimated 1,350,000 Bosnians living outside Bosnia and Herzegovina . ref cite web title BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA MIGRATION PROFILE url http www.mhrr.gov.ba iseljenistvo Publikacije MigrationProfile2010ENGLISHFINAL.pdf publisher Ministry of Security of Bosnia and Herzegovina date March 2010 ref Causes The Bosnian diaspora was the consequence of either voluntary departure, coercion and or forced migrations or expulsions that occurred on several occasions in the past 100 years In the late 19th century to the east and west caused by the invading forces of the Austro Hungarian Empire . In the early 20th century between the two wars, Bosnians moved to the east and west. They fled to Turkey , Austria , the United Kingdom , Australia , New Zealand , France , Germany , Italy , Sweden and United States of America with Canada included . This occurred mostly during the Second World War . The Bosnian War in the early 1990s from 1992 to 1995 . Many Bosnian refugees sought asylum in Western Europe and Oceania Australia and New Zealand Spain and the Netherlands , and the non EU nations of Norway and Switzerland , North America , the Middle East , the former USSR i.e. Russia and Ukraine . References reflist DEFAULTSORT Bosnian Diaspora Category Bosnia and Herzegovina diaspora Bosnia stub ... more details
citations missing date April 2008 Moldovan diaspora is a diaspora of Moldovans of Romanians Romanian descent, i.e., citizens of the Republic of Moldova of Romanian ethnic origin living abroad. Very few of them have settled in other parts of the world, but there is a significant number of them in some countries, mostly in the former Soviet Union , Italy and Greece . Moldovan is a regional name for ethnic Romanians living in Romania,the Republic of Moldova and elsewhere. The Moldovan diaspora is an integral part of the Romanian diaspora abroad, sharing the same language and culture. Citizens of Moldova of Romanian ethnic origin flag Italy 190,000 2010 flag Russia 172,330 2002 flag Portugal 21,147 Moldovan citizens legal residents, 2008 ref http www.destak.pt artigos.php?art 35325 2008 Census ref flag Brazil 20,000 2001 flag Kazakhstan 19,458 1999 flag Spain 10,434 2006 flag Belarus 4,300 1999 flag Kyrgyzstan 778 1999 flag Estonia 645 2000 flag Tajikistan 300 2000 flag Sweden 186 2008 ref http www.scb.se Statistics for Sweden Swedish ref References reflist Category People of Moldovan descent Moldova stub ru ... more details
Diaspora literacy is a phrase coined by literary scholar Veve Clark in her work Developing Diaspora Literacy and Marasa Consciousness Spillers 1991,40 60 . It is the ability to understand and or interpret the multi layered meanings of stories, words, and other folk sayings within any given community of the African diaspora . These meanings supersede those of ...Western or westernized signification 42 , meaning that they go beyond literal or typical literary interpretation into an area of folk understanding that could only be recognized by the eye skilled in such an understanding. Readers rely solely upon a knowledge and lived experience of social, historical, and cultural climates of the various cultures of the African diaspora as a foundation for interpretation. Theoretical foundations of diaspora literacy Diaspora literacy is based upon several different theoretical concepts. The first concept is that of African diaspora, which is ...the phenomenon and history... of the displacement of African descended peoples in the New World colonies of the Atlantic. The second concept is a trio of socio political movements The New Negro Harlem Renaissance Indigenismo and Negritude of the 1920s and 1930s 1991,40 . In these movements, the displaced and colonized peoples of the Afro Atlantic world came to embrace an awareness and appreciation of the political, cultural, and creative self as something unique in itself and thus not required to conform to European aesthetics. The third and final concept is that of Signifyin g . Signifying is a literary concept developed by scholar Henry Louis ... a literacy of the intricacies of the cultures could interpret. History of the term diaspora literacy ... delivered on Maryse Cond s Heremakhonon 1991, 58 9 . It was later revised in Developing Diaspora ... Diaspora Literacy and Marasa Consciousness in 1991. Since then, several literature and education scholars ... Category African diaspora ... more details
Infobox film name Soul Diaspora image soul diaspora poster.jpg alt Soul Diaspora Poster caption Where is home? director Odera Ozoka producer Clotile Delavennant, Odera Ozoka, James Peterson, Jonathan S. Abrams, Uju Uchendu writer Odera Ozoka starring Sadiq Abu br Kristian Steel br Mimi Vasser br Brendan Jackson br Maggie Maki br Serge Eustache br Donald Ajluni music cinematography Edwin Kim editing Richard Schachter studio distributor released 2009 runtime country Film USA language English Fulani budget US 20,000 ref name variety cite news url http www.africantrumpet.com index.php news main soul diaspora an odera ozoka film set to soar high title Soul Diaspora An Odera Ozoka film Set To Soar High last Adutwum first Saddat work African Trumpet publisher accessdate 3 March 2011 location Los Angeles, USA date 13 May 2010 ref gross Soul Diaspora is a 2009 film written and directed by Odera Ozoka. The film received 3 nominations at the 6th African Movie Academy Awards in 2010 for Best Actor in a Leading Role , Best film by an African Filmmaker in Diaspora , and AMAA Achievement in Sound , winning the award for Best film by an African Filmmaker in Diaspora . In addition, the film won the Audience Favorite Award at the 2010 Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles, USA. Plot The story depicts Saidu Sadiq Abu , a Nigerian immigrant living in Los Angeles who is forced to overcome sleepless nights of his tormented past in Africa. The audience finds him alone in this modern world, often hearing voices in his head, sometimes not even his, as the film interweaves color and black and white to illustrate this protagonist s conflicted behavior and tortured mental state. Saidu s life s path brings him to working less than minimum wage at a mechanic shop, forging little by little a friendship ... www.shadowandact.com ?p 21319 title The Soul Diaspora Homecoming last Okoi Obuli first Wendy publisher ... website http www.souldiasporamovie.com IMDb title 1527742 Soul Diaspora DEFAULTSORT Soul Diaspora ... more details
merge Albanian diaspora date November 2010 The term Kosovan diaspora refers to the estimated population of Kosovan people in the world migrated outside of Kosovo . Since the vast majority some 92 of Kosovans are Kosovar Albanians , the Kosovan diaspora is for the most part a section of the Albanian diaspora . Also since the Republic of Kosovo declared independence only in 2008 and is not recognized by all states, many emigrants from Kosovo do not have a Kosovan passport and appear as Serbian nationals in the statistics of their host countries. While a limited number of migrant worker s emigrated from Kosovo from as early as the 1960s, substantial emigration from Kosovo to Western Europe, especially to Germany and Switzerland , took place during the Yugoslav War and the subsequent Kosovo War during the 1990s. The CIA Factbook estimates that payments from the diaspora account for 14 of Kosovo s GNP, or some USD 740 million per year. In official statistics of Swiss demographics , Kosovans are listed under former Serbia and Montenegro as of 2010, since while Switzerland recognizes the Republic of Kosovo, only a minority of Kosovans in Switzerland had acquired a Kosovar passport by 2009. In 1998, the number of people from Serbia and Montenegro registered in Switzerland was at 242,000. By 2009, the number had decreased to 187,000, mostly due to naturalizations. Of the 242,000 registered in 1998, an estimated 160,000 to 200,000 were Kosovar Albanians. ref http www.albanien.ch albinfo index.php Kosova Diaspora albanien.ch ref The number of Kosovar Albanians in Germany is estimated at about 300,000, in Switzerland at about 200,000 of which about 40,000 have been naturalized as Swiss citizens . This makes them the third largest immigrant community in Switzerland following the Italians ... of the Diaspora at the Prime Minister of Kosovo s office DEFAULTSORT Kosovan Diaspora Category Kosovar diaspora ... more details
Refimprove date August 2007 The term diaspora language , coined in the 1980s, is a sociolinguistic idea referring to a variety of language spoken in a place of migration. For example, the great number of Hindi speakers in the United Kingdom has produced a strain of the language unlike that spoken on the Indian subcontinent where it began. This has given rise to Hindlish , also known as Hinglish , an informal term for the mixture of Hindi and English that includes such phrases as city kotwali or city police station. Hinglish is not considered a full blown diaspora language but it appears to be developing into one. A more concrete example of a diaspora language is Molise Slavic language Molise Slavic . Though possessing certain elements of Slavic languages , it is also influenced by Italian language Italian . Considered an endangered language , Molise Slavic is spoken by approximately 3,500 people in the villages of Montemitro , San Felice del Molise , and Acquaviva Collecroce in southern Molise, as well as elsewhere in southern Italy . The language developed as a result of refugees arriving in Italy from the eastern Adriatic coast during the 15th and 16th centuries. Another diaspora language is Istro Romanian language Istro Romanian , spoken by the Istro Romanians . Like Molise Croatian, it is considered endangered, with only 500 to 1000 speakers remaining. Istro Romanian developed when the ancestors of these individuals migrated to Istria from Transylvania some say Serbia during the 12th century. Category Sociolinguistics Category Diaspora languages ling stub pl J zyki diasporowe ... more details
The Finnish diaspora consists of Finnish emigrants and their descendants, especially those that maintain some of the customs of their Finnish culture. People emigrated to the United States , Canada , Sweden and Brazil . ref cite book author Michael G. Karni coauthors title Finnish Diaspora United States year 1981 publisher Multicultural History Society of Ontario page quote url isbn ref ref cite book author Michael G. Karni coauthors title Finnish Diaspora Canada, South America, Africa, Australia and Sweden year 1981 publisher Multicultural History Society of Ontario page quote url isbn ref The Great Migration Main Finnish American The years between 1870 and 1930 are sometimes referred as the Great Migration of Finns into North America. In the 1870s, there were only 3,000 migrants from Finland, but this figure was rapidly growing. New migrants often sent letters home, describing their life in the New World, and this encouraged more and more people to leave and try their luck in America. Rumors began of the acres of land that could be cleared into vast productive fields and the opportunity to earn a barrel of American dollars in mines, factories, and railroads. There were also professional recruiters, or agents , employed by mining and shipping companies, who encouraged Finns to move to the United States. This activity was frowned upon by the authorities of the Grand Duchy, and was mostly done in secret. It was eventually brought to an end in the late 1880s by legislation in the U.S., but the decade still saw a 12 fold increase in the number of Finnish migrants compared to the previous decade, as 36,000 Finns left their home country for North America. References reflist Finnish diaspora Category Finnish diaspora ... more details
POV date December 2010 The negation of the Jewish DiasporaDiaspora lang he , shlilat ha ... of the feasibility of Jewish emancipation in the Diaspora. Life in the Diaspora would either lead .... 134 140 ref Yehezkel Kaufmann saw Jews in the Diaspora as territorially assimilated, religiously ... a mixture of Hebrew and the local language. Kaufmann viewed this Diaspora culture as flawed, misshapen, poor and restricted. Although Diaspora Jews could assimilate more easily now that the Jewish ghettos ... held a more moderate view in that they still saw some positive traits or possibilities in life in the Diaspora ..., Ahad Ha am wanted to improve life in the Diaspora by creating a spiritual center in Palestine. This would ... bond with the infinite. In the Diaspora, a Jew was cut off from direct contact with nature. Gordon ... was the potential of the Jewish people, which they preserved in the Diaspora, where it could only give ... rejecting life in the Diaspora. ref Schweid, pp. 150 154 ref Sternhell distinguishes two schools ... ref According to Sternhell, the Zionist views underlying the negation of the Diaspora, e.g., the view ... 0 8147 7449 0 ref This vision manifested itself by counterposing new Hebrew to old Diaspora Jew in various ... Diaspora language, Yiddish , with a new tongue, authentic Hebrew , adopting the Sephardi rather ... on German or Russian and adopting Hebrew ones instead. This rejection of the diaspora, for some ... residents into the larger Hebrew culture. This extreme negation of both the diaspora and Judaism ... of the Diaspora was removed from the basic premises guiding national education in Israel. One reason for this was the need of the State of Israel to reconcile itself with Jews in the Diaspora ... November 2007. ref The anti Diaspora position is present within the Israeli literati to this day ... or cited as critical of Diaspora Judaism and the Diaspora existence as being inauthentic and rootless in comparison to Israeli Judaism. ref http www.haaretz.com news a b yehoshua versus diaspora jews ... more details
Burmese diaspora refers to citizens of Burma Myanmar who have moved abroad, regardless of ethnicity. Burma contains over 40 different ethnic groups, though the term Burmese can be used to refer to the Bamar ethnicity. fact date May 2010 Between 1.5 and 2 million Burmese nationals live in neighboring Thailand , the largest destination. Some half million work in Malaysia. ref citation periodical The Irrawaddy url http www.irrawaddy.org article.php?art id 17341 title UN in Malaysia Grants More Burmese Refugee Status author Lawi Weng date 2009 12 02 accessdate 2010 05 18 ref Many were minorities in Burma. Significant numbers also reside in Tokyo , Japan, Singapore , and the United States . Also included are many Anglo Burmese , primarily in Australia, the UK, New Zealand, Canada and the USA, Burmese Chinese , who have in significant numbers emigrated to People s Republic of China China , Taiwan , Hong Kong , and Macau . Significant communities of Burmese expelled from Nepal live in Thailand. There are also recent migr s to Bangladesh fact date May 2010 and Pakistan . References reflist Burmese diaspora Category Burmese diaspora ... more details
The Sikh diaspora is a relatively recent I suggest rephrasing, as recent means little term used to describe ... of Sikhsim. The Sikh diaspora is largely a subset of the Punjabi diaspora . ref Encarta http uk.encarta.msn.com encyclopedia 761566784 sikhism.html ref The starting point of the diaspora is commonly ... annexation into the British Raj . The most famous personification of the Sikh diaspora was the first ... years. The development of the Punjabi Sikh diaspora concept has given diaspora Sikhs a conscious ... diaspora, the most important political aspect of this period was the historical establishment ... of the Sikh diaspora Sikh migration from the Punjab began in earnest in the second half of the 19th ..., Duleep Singh , thus making Singh the first although unwilling member of the Sikh diaspora. Although ... of the Sikh Diaspora by Brian Keith Axel . Pub. by Duke University Press 2001 . ref argues that Duleep Singh s exile has had a major impact on the Sikh diaspora psyche. Axel 2001 ref A review of The Nation s Tortured Body Violence, Representation, and the Formation of the Sikh Diaspora by Brian ... is a later trait in the diaspora s development. Having annexed the Sikh Kingdom , the British Raj ... Sahib Axel 2001 ref name The Nation s Tortured Body 2001 argues that the Sikh diaspora community, having ... Diaspora Search for Statehood by Darshan Singh Tatla 1998 . Pp. 16 33. Pub. by University of Washington ... were facing due to Indira Gandhi s heavy handed tactics, were amplified in the Sikh diaspora. Subsequently, the Sikh diaspora, especially in Canada ref The Sikh Diaspora in Vancouver Three Generations ... movement, via 1984 s Operation Bluestar , had a seismic effect on the Sikh diaspora. Axel 2001 ref A review of The Nation s Tortured Body Violence, Representation, and the Formation of the Sikh Diaspora ... brethren in Punjab. Diaspora Sikhs felt betrayed by India, and the events of 1984 defined their Sikhism and underlined a distinct commonality shared with other diaspora Sikhs. Mark Tully ref ... more details
century Swedish diaspora from 1840 to 1910, 33 percent of Sweden s population left for Minnesota ... diaspora s ability to hold on to its culture while fully integrating on a global scale. ref name midsummer In the United States members of the diaspora had access to Swedish films starting in 1922 with The Treasure ... American diaspora community such as The Film about Sweden and The Old Land of Dreams . ref ... happened to Swedishness in the diaspora, I am going to explore how the Swedish Americans in special ... of view, now was a Swedish diaspora. ... url http books.google.com books?id jXGuJkA RkYC&pg PA180 ... Midsummer as a particularly grand example of the Swedish diaspora s ability to hold on to its culture ... City Midsummer celebration is a particularly grand example of the Swedish diaspora s ability to hold ... accessdate 2011 02 25 ref See also Swedish emigration to the United States Finnish diaspora Danish diaspora Norwegian diaspora Icelandic diaspora References reflist SwedishDiaspora Use dmy dates date February 2011 Category Swedish diaspora sv Svensk ttling ... more details
The Baloch diaspora refers to Baloch people , and their descendants, who have emigrated to places outside of the Balochistan region Balochistan region of South Central Asia a region stretching from southwestern Pakistan , southern Afghanistan and Southeastern Iran . The Baloch diaspora is found in the Middle East , India , Turkmenistan , East Africa , Europe , North America and in other parts of the world. Pakistan main Sindhi Baloch Baloch of Punjab Within Pakistan, there are significant numbers of Baloch tribes that have migrated partially or totally and settled in regions outside of Balochistan, mostly into Sindh . Some have also migrated into southern Punjab Pakistan Punjab , especially in the Saraiki language Saraiki speaking regions as well as southeast Khyber Pakhtunkhwa . Many have become entirely assimilated into their host cultures. The Zardari tribe and Jatoi tribe for example are now culturally Sindhi Baloch . The Talpur dynasty is a Baloch tribe that ruled over Sindh . Meanwhile the Leghari s of southern Punjab speak Saraiki language Saraiki today. World Middle East There are large numbers of Baloch living in Oman , the UAE and other Arab states of the Persian Gulf . Europe There are also significant populations in Norway , Sweden , and other European countries . Turkmenistan main Beluch There is a population of Baloch in Turkmenistan who migrated there in the early 20th century, estimated in 1997 to number between 38,000 and 40,000 ref MOSHKALO, Vyacheslav V. 2000 http users.tpg.com.au users goshti moshkalo.rtf Language and Culture of the Baloch in Turkmenistan . In Carina JAHANI ed. Language in Society Eight Sociolinguistic Essays on Balochi Studia Iranica Upsaliensia 3 . Uppsala Uppsala University, pp. 97 103 ref ref http www.ethnologue.com show country.asp ... DEFAULTSORT Baloch Diaspora Category Pakistani diaspora Category Balochistan Diaspora Category Baloch people Diaspora Category Baloch diaspora ... more details
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